The next day was the day of the competition and Soft Gem began that morning with a cup of coffee, some left over donuts from Donut Joe, and changing two fillies who’d wet the bed that night, giggling. “My, you two are quite the bed wetters.
Spoiled sighed. “I know, bu is hard getting up to go pee pee at night.”
Flower Petal nodded. “Yeah, Mommy says it wuns in the famiwy. She said she had to weaw diapees to bed tiw she was five.”
Soft Gem continued the change and commented. “Well that’s alright, both of you are doing very well otherwise, not a single accident yesterday. So I wouldn’t fret about the bedwetting, it's quite natural for fillies your age.” She helped the fillies up and assisted them in putting on their pull-ups as Flower Petal asked. “Hey, ya have any extwa donuts fwom yestewday?”
Soft Gem took out a box and let the fillies eat them as she asked. “So, how were the other fillies?”
Spoiled Rich rolled her eyes. “Weww, tey were weally mean most of the time. Bu I guess they wewe nice neaw ta end of the day.”
Flower Petal agreed. “Yeah, they wew ta ones who stawted tat donut fight yestewday. I was jus tewwing that gold coated filly not to throw hew donuts on the fwoor.”
Spoiled added. “Yeah, and Twinkwe Staw was hoawding aww ta donuts.”
Soft Gem gasped. “Really?! My word, Fleur must be dealing with some very mean fillies then.”
Flower Petal nodded. ”Yeah, tey wewe onwy nice because Fleuw thweatened to put tem in diapees fow the bawwet competition.”
Soft Gem eyed Spoiled and Flower. “Well, you two are quite the hooful as well,” She told them. “And next time, if fillies are mean, you need to tell me so we can remedy the issue before it leads to things like donut fights,” Spoiled Rich and Flower Petal both gave nods as Soft Gem continued. “Glad that’s out of the way, now let's get you two on stage.” She led the fillies out of the hotel and down the steps to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders all standing in the foyer.
They all squealed, tackling Spoiled Rich, and Diamond Tiara hugged her. “Hey, Mother, we came to cheer you on!”
Spoiled blushed, hugged her daughter back and nuzzled her. “Tanks, I hope we do weww.”
Soft Gem smiled at the scene, then she saw Scootaloo and smirked. “So, Scootaloo, how’s the dress holding up?”
Scootaloo blushed, not wanting to admit what she’d kept it. “It’s uh, fine. I… um brought it just for morale support like before. Nothing else.”
Soft Gem didn’t press Scootaloo, she just cooed. “Well, these little fillies were heading to the Canterlot Summer Filly Palace for some practice, how about you join us before the competition?”
They all nodded and waddled off together, eventually coming upon the pink walled castle with a pink draw gate and everything. The Cutie Mark Crusaders all stepped back and looked around to make sure nopony was around, then Scootaloo whispered. “We run at three: One, two, three!” They all squealed, ran to the door and tumbled inside!
They were greeted by Fleur, who was wearing a pink frilly princess dress, with pompous bubble sleeves and a golden tiara. She giggled. “Hello Soft Gem, and hello little fillies, welcome to the most adorable and fun castle in all of Canterlot.”
The fillies all blushed and Spoiled went up, blinking at her surroundings. “I can't believe this is actually Fleur. I would’ve never imagined she would ever wear something embarrassing like this. Did Nanny De’Foal curse her as well?” But she just greeted. “Hey, uh Fleuw, we came ta pwactice befowe ta show.”
Fleur nodded in approval. “That sounds like a good idea. Just follow me, I'll show you the dance room,” She led the fillies through the castle, and they turned to see a fancy ballroom being fitted with chairs, while a stage was being set up. As they continued onward, they came to a small dance room with the standard wood floor and long mirror. Fleur continued. “You can practice here to your heart’s content. My fillies are in the garden playing croquet right now, hopefully Fancy Pants has it under control, including diaper duty.” She left as Spoiled and Flower giggled.
Soft Gem cooed and shushed them. “Now now, let's get you princesses into your costumes, and then it’s straight to practice.”
They grumbled but followed Soft Gem to a changing room, where they were dressed in embarrassing princess costumes and Flower Petal giggled. “Otay. we need to weawn ta time ouw wanding so we don’t tumbwe on our wumps wike we did befowe.”
Spoiled nodded. “Yeah, I agree. Espicawwy ‘cause that one time it made me go potty in fwont of evewypony.” They then continued with their ballet routine.
Later that afternoon Spoiled Rich and Flower Petal were led backstage and came upon four fillies practicing backstage, including two new fillies from Manehatten. Goldielocks had a table with sippy cups filled with juice, and the fillies were drinking them. The gold coated filly turned and asked. “Hey, you two wan some juice befowe ta pewfowmance?”
Against their better judgement Spoiled and Flower both squealed in laughter, took some sippy cup, and started sucking the juice out from the sippy cups. Spoiled Rich gasped! “Wow! Tis juice is gweat!”
Goldielocks giggled. “Tanks, is a vewy speciaw bwend.”
“Wait..why did ya make juice fow aaww of us?” Flower asked.
But before Goldielocks could answer, Fleur cooed. “Now fillies, I want to remind you that this is a friendly competition. No being mean behind stage. And remember, it's not about winning, it’s about having fun.”
All rolled their eyes as Fleur fixed her mane. “Alright, it's showtime,” She went out onto the stage and announced. “Hello every filly and mare, and I see some colts are also in the audience. Don’t be shy, nopony’s judging. Welcome to the third annual Summer Filly School Ballet Competition! I’m your princess host of the evening, Flurry! And without further ado, let's bring out our first contestants, the fillies from Manehatten!”
The crowd clopped their hooves and the two fillies went out and bowed. They then began their ballet. But they stumbled and plopped on their rumps a lot, and one who was really nervous, peed her pull-ups.
The Canterlot fillies laughed. “Wook at those stupid fiwwies, so embawwassing.”
At the end, both Manehattan fillies bowed and the crowd still cheered as Fleur cooed. “Well, it seems our first two contestants had a little bit of stage fright. But they did well in spite of that,” She led the fillies backstage and then turned to her fillies. “Alright you two are next, come on,” Poking her head out onto the stage, Fleur announced. “Now for my fillies, Goldielocks and Twinkle Star.”
Golidelocks and Twinkle Star began their dance. They twirled as they executed their ballet performance perfectly, and they finished off with a perfect finale. The crowd clapped and cheered.
The remaining two fillies looked at each other nervously and Fleur turned towards them. “Alright, you two are up, come on.”
The Canterlot fillies stuck their tongues out and Spoiled growled. “Wet’s do tis, Fwower Petaw!”
Spoiled and Flower came out on the stage and bowed. They began twirling around and were doing very well, when suddenly Spoiled felt a pang in her gut and turned, gasping upon seeing the gold filly laughing. She realized! “That juice! She put something in the juice!” She squealed, feeling her bladder ache and she started peeing and filled her pull-up, but continued the dance despite the soggy pants sagging around her. Then something hit her pull-up and she looked down to see that the plastic pants were thicker and there were tabs…a diaper?! Who had turned her pull-up into a diaper?!
Spoiled turned to Flower Petal as the same thing happened to her, and with the sweat coming down her face it was clear that she’d also had an accident. But they both performed well even with their soggy diapers, coming to the finale, the one they kept messing up during practice. They both twirled in midair and landed perfectly for once, even with their diapers sticking out. They both bowed in unison as the classical music stopped and the crowd burst with a standing ovation!
The fillies blushed and bowed as Fleur clapped. “Bravo, that was magnificent!”The fillies went backstage and Fleur commented. “That was amazing, you two did great! With a performance like that, I’d say you’ve likely won the competition!”
Spoiled pouted. “Yeah. bu we pee-peed ouwsewves, an ouw puww-ups tuwned into diapees.”
Fleur looked down and tried not to giggle. “Good thing too, looks like it was quit the soak. Those diapers are the Silly Filly brand and they usually have balloons on the front, but their nonexistent on both of you. Don’t worry about it too much though, you two still did very well. Now come on, all of you, it’s time to see what the judges have declared,” She led all three groups of fillies back onto the stage and was given a card by Fancy Pants which she read aloud. “For our third place finishers, we have the fillies from Manehattan, second place goes to the fillies from Canterlot, and in first place are the fillies from Ponyville, give them another round of applause!”
The crowd roared as the fillies bowed and they were then given two trophies, both Spoiled Rich and Flower Petal received a gold trophy with a little filly in a tutu on the top of it. Then the Cutie Mark Crusaders ran up and gave the fillies hugs, before Spoiled Rich hugged Soft Gem, squealing. “Tank ya fow putting us in diapees. If we had puww-ups, we would’ve peed aww ova the stage.”
Soft Gem blinked. “I didn’t put you two in diapers. In fact ,I remember putting pull-ups on you just this morning.”
“Sorry deariez,” A familiar voice apologized. “I zaw ya two were going to zoak the ztage, so I took necezzary precautions.”
They all turned to see Nanny De’Foal and Spoiled squealed! “Ya put diapees on us?!”
Nanny De’Foal nodded and explained. “Yez, I figured you two would rather not zoak the ztage and embarrass yourzelves. Dezpite the extra padding, it zeemz ya two were ztill able to pull it off, I am proud of you. However I need to talk to Zpoiled Rich and Diamond Tiara, az well az zome naughty filliwes.”
The little pink coated filly gulped, and Soft Gem nuzzled her. “Its alright, go on. We’ll wait for you”
Spoiled Rich and Diamond followed Nanny De’Foal and ended up in a fancy, pink frilly room with the fillies from Canterlot and two stallions as De’Foal scolded to Goldielocks and Twinkle Star. “I’m disappointed in how you two have been behaving! You zabotaged the fillies from Manehatten’s performance, and you almost did the zame for the filliez from Ponyville’s performance by giving them Zuper Zoaker juice,” Turning to the stallions, De’Foal added. “Now I think the two need to learn their lezzonz.”
Goldielocks whined. “We didn't do anything! Is not owa fawt tat tose babies can’t howd theiw bawaddew!”
But Nanny De’Foal shook her head. “Don’t think I didn’t notice the Zuper Zoaker potion that I gave to Twinkle Ztar for making fun of her son’s bedwetting. I did that to teach her a lezzon, that everypony has accidentz. But it zeems she decided to pass it along to Golidelockz somehow.”
Mr. Moneytree nodded. “That’s right, and I'm so sorry for what she did, I had no idea Twinkle Star stole that.”
De’Foal sighed. “Well, it’z not your fault, but you need to watch your foalz bettew, you can’t let them walk all over you. Now, I'm zuggezting to both of you ztallionz that we wegwess theze two mawez into one year oldz.”
Both stallions nodded their heads as Goldielocks’ husband replied. “Yes, I think that’s a fitting punishment for such terrible behavior. I thought my darling Goldielocks had changed for the better when she regressed, it seems I was wrong.”
Before the fillies could protest, De’Foal sprinkled dust on them and they shrank before her as they grew chubbier and their pull-ups turned to thick diapers. The husbands took the babies as De’Foal continued. “I’ll check in a few months to turn them back into fillies, provided they behave. Othewize, tew will onwy go back up to toddlers,” She then turned her attention to Diamond Tiara and Spoiled Rich. “Now for you two. Zpoiled Rich, you have made a lot of progress since last I zaw you. Zo, I’m giving you the opportunity to turn back into your former adult zelf now if you wish too.”
Spoiled Rich looked up at Diamond Tiara with a smile and hugged her daughter as she told Nanny De’Foal. “Ya know what, I tink I'ww stay like a fow fow ta west of ta yeaw. Is hewped me wearn to be nice.”
Diamond squealed and hugged Spoiled. “Thank you! Thank you! I love you, Mom!”
Spoiled hugged her daughter back. “I wove ya too!”
Nanny De’Foal nodded in approval at the scene. “Alright, Zpoiled, if that iz what you wish I zhall take my leave.” The mare then disappeared in a puff of smoke.
One morning after Summer had ended, The Cutie Mark Crusaders were leading Spoiled Rich (who was proudly wearing a pink tutu over her fresh, crinkling, pink pull-up) to “Foalville” daycare and when they finally arrived, Diamond Tiara sighed, gave the toddler a hug and cooed to Spoiled. “You be a good filly, okay?”
The little pink coated filly hugged Diamond and nuzzled her. “Otay, Diamond, I wiw.”
Just then, the caretaker Cocoa Butter came over. “Hello, Spoiled. I heard you’re a better filly now, is that correct?”
Spoiled Rich blushed, folded her fore hooves together, and whispered. “Yeah, I sowie fow bein’ such a meanie befowe. I wun be again, I pwomice.”
The caretaker cooed. “That’s alright, and I’m sure you’ll keep your word. Soft Gem told me all about your progress in good behavior, and she also told me that you learned ballet. I was hoping that maybe later, you and Flower Petal could perform for the other foals.”
Spoiled squealed in delight! “I would wove too! It wouwd be so much fun!” She then turned to the Cutie Mark Crusaders and shouted. “Bye bye, see ya aftew daycawe!”
Diamond Tiara squealed back. “Okay, see you later, Mom!” The older fillies then ran off to school.
Once inside the daycare proper, Spoiled waddled over, seeing that Flower Petal had new dolls. She gave one to Spoiled. “Hewe, Spoiled, Mommy finawwy went out to buy me a new dowwy fow winning the competition, and I thought ya shouw have one too.”
The little pink coated filly teared up and hugged Flower Petal. “Tank you, ya the best, Fwower Petaw.”
The two fillies played for some time, then they were called for snack time and they stay together, eating animal crackers and drinking from their sippy cups, when two stallions came by and dropped their “daughters” off. They turned out to be Goldielocks and Twinkle Star, both in poofy diapers.
Cocoa Butter dawwed at them and cooed. “Aww, aren’t they adorable?”
The green coated stallion gulped nervously and asked. “You do diapers, right?”
Cocoa Butter laughed. “Of course I do, this is a daycare after all.”
Spoiled Rich and Flower Petal waddled over to the foals, who blushed as Spoiled asked. “Hey, can we pway with tem?”
The black coated stallion commented. “Of course you can! We just came by to discuss some things with your dad, he says he wants to open a shop in Canterlot. We should be back to pick them up in a few hours.”
Spoiled and Flower giggled, dragged the foals over, and plopped them next to the doll castle. They then gave Goldielocks a dragon and Twinkle Star a knight as Spoiled Rich explained. “Otay, I’m the pwincess and Fwower Petaw is the maid. Goldiewocks, ya can be the dwagon, and Twinkwe Staw be the knight tat has to save us.”
Flower Petal giggled. “Yeah, tat sounds wike fun!”
But the purple coated filly clinged to her plush dragon and started chewing on it, while the gold coated filly shoved a hoof up her nose. The fillies sighed in unison, and and Spoiled grumbled. “I think they a bit too young to undewstand.” The older fillies then sat down and helped the foals try to build a tower of blocks.
Flower Petal giggled. “Wow, I wike them better as tis! But ya think they know what they doing?”
Spoiled giggled. “Maybe. Hopefuwwy we can hep hewp change tem to be good fiwwies.” They continued playing for until it was nap time and the caretaker put the foals into a crib. The fillies lay on their sleeping mats and snuggled under their blankets.
Spoiled turned to Flower Petal and sighed. “You know..I...I...may want to stay as a fiwwy. I mean I nevew had a fwiend when I was gwowing up.”
Flower Petal held her hoof and whispered back. “Yeah, and I scawed of gwowing up. Maybe ya can help me?” The fillies then hugged each other and gently fell asleep.
Back at the school house Snips and Snails were delivering their report, but they were clearly rushing, for as they continued Snips was stumbling. “Friends..are fun..we ..uh like friends?”
Snails growled. “Well friends are fun to play with... that’s what he’s trying to say!”
The class all groaned as Cheerilee rolled her eyes. ”You two really need help. Sorry but you’re both getting a D. Next time, try rehearsing your speech before you give,” Snips and Snails both groaned and stomped back to their seats. Cheerilee then turned to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. “Alright, you three are next. “
The Crusaders all got up and walked to the front of the class. Sweetie Belle cleared her throat. “Well we learned that ponies off all kinds can be mean and rude, but we need to also give tose ponies a chance. Sometimes they’re mean for reasons we don’t understand.
Scootaloo chimed in. “One time we had this filly who was Apple Bloom’s cousin, Bab Seed. She came by a few years ago and was really mean. But it turns out, she was also bullied at her school and she was scared she would be bullied here. So once that was understood, we were able to befriend Babs, and make her a member of our group.”
“Another example we learned this from,” Apple Bloom added. “Was seein’ a certain filly who became best friends with another bratty filly, and they eventually learned to work together, learned how be friends, and even won a ballet competition. One of ‘em was named Flower Petal, but I’m afraid we can’t tell ya who the other one was. In the end, friendship is about givin’ ponies a second chance and not judgin’ them based on first impressions.”
The class clapped and Cheerilee commented. “What a wonderful report, you three clearly rehearsed it, and your examples were quite interesting. I think it’s safe to say, you’re all getting A’s.” The fillies all beamed with pride and bowed together and as they went back to their seats.
Diamond Tiara (having already presented her paper earlier and getting an A as well) looked out the window, thinking to herself. “I wonder how Mother is doing. Hopefully she’s having a good time at daycare.”